“According to a new report from research firm NPD, iOS’s U.S. market share (by sales) jumped from 26% in the third quarter of 2011 to 43% by October and November,” Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch. “[Android had] 47% market share during those two months, down from 60% in Q3… Former leader RIM’s sales tanked from over 20% in Q3 2010 to just 6% in October/November 2011.”
“Says NPD, over the course of 2011, the smartphone battle saw iOS and Android distancing themselves from the competition, turning it into ‘a two-horse race,'” Perez reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Secretariat and his brain-damaged clone.
Perez continues, “Nine of the top ten phones sold in Oct/Nov are smartphones, with Samsung, HTC and Motorla each having at least one smartphone listed in NPD’s top ten. Apple’s phones are on the top of the list, with the iPhone 4S in the number one spot and the iPhone 4 still doing well in the #2 position.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As Steve would say, “Boom!”
It’s no wonder that Samesung was forced to run ads designed to keep the Android settlers stuck in fragmented-land.
Can’t wait to see December’s numbers!
NICE! And BOOM!
A very apt take by MDN, and just wait until the Belmont Stakes…
Going for the triple crown are we?
Assuming the smartphone market size is constant, this already implies ~28M iPhones sold (of all versions)
That magic 30M mark doesn’t look so distant anymore
Still looks because iPhone 4S was not available for sale for the most of mankind in this quarter. In these regions sales followed stamp of 2011Q3 when Apple sold 11 million iPhones outside of US.
So base sales for 2011Q4 are from 25 to 30 million, with the latter being distant.
Windows mobile and Windows Phone ’07: the true rounding errors. On the chart, you can’t even separate them from the “All others” line.
When they total 4%, that means three lines have to all be around 1%. Of course they all merge into one little mess.
Love that the 3-year-old 3GS outsells anything new from Samdung!
user experience will always trump paper specs.
Adding to my previous post (if we assume global trends mirror US trends) :
(67 / 59) [growth of smartphone share as % of total phone market] x
(43 / 26) [growth in iPhone share] x
17.073M [Q3] x
0.9 [take a factor to account for less iPhone penetration outside of US]
= 28.86M
The factor has to be less than 0.9 since beside penetration matter, markets with total populations of billions of people did not have iPhone 4S selling at all.
Even 2012Q1 will not be the first quarter of full availability of iPhone 4S. Many regions will get the phone only skipping three or four weeks of this quarter.
2012Q2 will be the first full quarter of iPhone 4S sales.
Mirror mirror on the wall what’s the best OS of all?
Apple iOS sales are up, Apple profits are up. Watch their stock value drop!!! Doesn’t make any sense.
Yes, Apple iPhones took the number 1, 2, and 3 spots (no more iPhone types so no more top spots to take). But, the untold reality is that ALL iOS iphones are smart phones. However, not ALL Android phones are smart phones! Some are just feature type phones using an Android OS in the old school cell phone.
Anyone playing with the numbers here? The iPhone iOS Tsunami is here. You can hide the facts but people still are buying the real multi-touch smart phone made by the innovator of the category of iPhone and iPhone “like” smart phones.
Quite telling that 4 thru 10 are knockoffs of 1, 2 and 3.
Siri, iOS and iCloud working in perfect harmony will put some distance between Apple and the others …..
Soon the scale will tip and Apple will be selling some many desktops and laptops not to mention iPhones, iPads and iPods it will make your head spin …..
The moment of truth will soon be upon all the world, the Little Engine that Could – CAN and IT IS – Here comes APPLE and the Corporate World will take note and replace their machines in droves, especially when Microsoft blows it with Windows 8 (another Vista) ….
Stay Tuned Folks!
Doesn’t Microsoft have a mobile platform? Oh wait, they have TWO. If you look at the graph, they’re hard to see because they’re down at the baseline.
That is absolutely pathetic to see. I wonder if Ballmer would call that a “rounding error.” I guess Microsoft’s strategy of having an OS on hunreds of models of smartphones isn’t doing too well. If I were a Microsoft shareholder, I probably wouldn’t ever take what Ballmer says as the truth.
Just wait for the December numbers to come in.
December is over.
The December numbers are in.
There were 31 days in that month.
You heard it here first.
The December numbers are in.
But the December numbers are not in THAT report above. It will be a BIG BOOM when the December numbers ARE added in!
NPD is always at least 2 months behind.
The two previous iPhone models on the chart are like a Demaryius Thomas straight arm, keeping the competition well away from the ball! 🙂
The iPhone 5 will be like a Kareem Abdul-Jabar sky hook.
+10
People waking up from their sleep? Realizing that they have been lied to by their local IT doofus? Who was duped by his PC rag o the month whore mag? Say it ain’t so. If people know the truth it will make the lines longer for the rest of us when we get our new iPhones and iPads early. It’s so awesome to see the bad guys, thieves, copycats starting to lose let’s keep it up. Tell two friends and so on and so on. Also you iPhoners and iPad’rs out their demo you stuff to people don’t be shy we can help win this battle.
Maybe other companies will use this as an opportunity to innovate and compete that would be a welcome thing because fair competition makes everybody’s stuff better and cheaper in the long run and the consumers win.